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UNDER DIRECTION OF THE STATE 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 



M. L. BRITTAIN 

STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS 

1917 



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GEORGIA. 

NOTE: An experience with county- wide local school tax is the 
most effective argument for it. Counties adjacent to local tax 
counties, seeing its benefits, most readily vote for it. See map. 



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/////// /COUHTY-WIDB LOCAL TAX 



COUNTY- WIDE LOCAL TAX. 

Bacon Ben Hill, Bibb, Bryan, Burke, Butts, Camden, Chatham, 
Coffee, Columbia, Crisp, DeKalb, Echols, Emanuel, Fulton, Glynn, 
Hancock, Henry, Houston, Irwin, Jasper, Jeff Davis, Jenkins, Jones, 
Lee, Mcintosh, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Muscogee, Newton, 
Quitman, Rabun, Randolph, Richmond, Screven, Spalding, Tift, 
Terrell, Walton, Wayne — 41. 



Educational Survey of 

Heard County 

Georgia 



BY 

M. L. DUGGAN, Rural School Agent 



No. 17 




Under the Direction of the 
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 



M. L. BRITTAIN 

Superintendent of Schools 
1917 



HEARD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS 



To the Citizens of Heard County: 

I respectfully submil to your careful consideration the following 
report upon the condition of your white public schools. 

The majority of them are entirely inadequate to the educational 
demands of your children. 

The titles to many of your school lots are doubtful. The sehool 
grounds at most of them are unimproved and utterly neglected. At 
some only one toilet is provided, at many the toilets are in bad con- 
dition, while at others there is no toilet to be found. 

None of the school houses fully meet the requirements of present 
day school architecture, nearly all are poorly planned, and some are 
in bad repair. Comparatively few of the buildings or grounds are 
"well kept," and so offer no attractions to pupils or passers-by. 

Many of the schools are uncomfortably seated, and at very few 
places are the seals properly adjusted to the sizes of the children. 
As a rule there is practically "no equipment" other than a very 
poor blackboard or a cheap map or two. 

The school year of only twenty weeks, especially when divided as 
it is into separate terms, is not long enough for the children to prop- 
erly cover the grades expected of them. It is not surprising, there- 
fore, to find a great lack of thoroughness in their education. 

The teachers are poorly paid, and therefore in a good many in- 
stances of inferior scholarship and without training. There are 
notable exceptions at a few schools, but the best are none too good 
for Heard county children. Every school in Heard county should 
be fully as good as the best school in Heard county. 

Except in a few instances the people of the county are not proud 
of their public schools, the teachers are not satisfied with their work, 
and the children are not afforded as good facilities for thorough 
education as they deserve or as the people are able to provide for 
them. 

HOPEFUL SIGNS. 

The superintendent is willing and anxious to give his whole time 
and best efforts in the interest of better schools ; the school officials 
seem to be ready for an advance movement if they could be assured 
of reasonable support by public sentiment ; it remains for the people, 
for the education of whose children these schools stand, to demand 
more adequate educational facilities for their children and support 
every effort looking to that end. 

THE NEW EDUCATION. 

The recent successful introduction of agricultural demonstration 
work into the county, and the prompt and hearty response on the 



part of most of the schools, should be an encouragement and assur- 
ance to all who want to see progress attempted along other lines. 
Mr. — . — . Jeter, the demonstration agent, deserves much credit for 
his energy in organizing boys' and girls' clubs, and the teachers 
and pupils at many of the schools are to be commended tor their co- 
operation. One school, as will be seen from this report, has ar- 
ranged to utilize practically all of its school grounds as a demon- 
stration farm under the supervision of the comity demonstrator. 

CO-OPERATIVE HELP. 

Community clubs are organizing or being considered at a few- 
places in the county, and they will help to create public sentiment 
lor and lead towards needed educational progress in many ways. 
Such organized activities should be encouraged and welcomed in 
every school community, and should enlist men, women, and chil- 
dren, and if volunteers are tardy in enlisting it might be well to 
apply the principle of "selective conscription." 

SOME RECOMMENDATIONS. 
To School Officials : 

A considerable increase in the maintenance of each school can be 
provided by decreasing the number of schools. A number of con- 
solidations can be effected without unreasonable inconvenience to 
any patrons. A compliance with the law which contemplates that 
the schools shall be at least four miles apart would reduce the num- 
ber by about half, which would practically double the present main- 
tenance fund for each. Note the location of the schools with refer- 
ence to each other. Also see map. 

An eight weeks term in mid-summer (July and August), amid 
the distractions of picnics, protracted meetings, etc., with the usual 
irregularities of attendance, is of little benefit to* the children. A 
continuous term during November, December, January, February 
and March usually gives better results than a divided term with 
eight weeks in mid-summer. 

To the Teachers: 

No teacher who fails to keep buildings and grounds in good con- 
dition ought to be retained. This should constitute an important 
part of the proper training and education of the children, and al- 
ways has a decided influence upon the community. The spirit that 
will create wholesome and attractive environment will by contagion 
affect the entire neighborhood, and deserved aid and co-operation 
will not be long withheld. 

interest is a condition to education. The successful teacher must 
create a condition of interest. 



To Patrons and Citizens: 

The State apportions $3.35 per child per year for the education 
of your children. This very small sum will not buy much education 
for your children. They deserve more. Five school Districts in 
Heard county supplements this by local tax levies for the benefit of 
their children. The balance of the county does nothing, except by 
tuition fees in a few places, which are always uncertain. A county- 
wide local school tax levy of four mills against the $1,629,553.00 
worth of property in the county would yield an additional sum of 
$6,518.21, which added to the State school fund of $11,370.79 would 
give a total for the support of the public schools of $17,889.00. This 
would be an increase of about 60 per cent., and would immediately 
more than double the efficiency of the public school system of the 
county. 

M. L. DUGGAN, 

Rural School Agent for Georgia. 



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HEARD COUNTY 
COURT HOUSE. 

Built in 1894 at a Cost of 
$30,000.00. 



Note : Heard County Court House cost the taxpayers more than the 
combined value of all the school houses in the county to say 
nothing of the county jail. 




FRANKLIN HIGH 
SCHOOL. 

PROF. A. H. JOHNSON, 
Principal. 

MRS. A. H. JOHNSON, 
MISS EUNICE JOHNSON, 

Assistants. 

Located at the county seat ; high elevation ; grounds undergoing 
some improvements ; two toilets in fair condition. 

Building: Value about $1800.00; three class rooms and auditorium; 
lio cloak rooms ; small building for music room ; building fairly- 
well lighted; in bad repair. 

Equipment: Good single and double patent desks; poor black- 
boards; a few maps; no library. Needing better equipment. 

Organziation : Three teachers; 150 pupils; ten grades; nine months 
continuous school year; literary and social clubs; industrial 
clubs. 




WAYSIDE SCHOOL, 

MISS CORA HEARN, 

Teacher. 

Franklin, Ga. 



Location: Two and one-half miles South to Simpson school; two 
and one-half miles Northwest to Antioch school ; two and one- 
half miles Northeast to Central Hatchee. 

Grounds: Two acres, titles in trustees; fine, elevated location; 
grounds well cleaned off; ample playgrounds; only one toilet, 
in bad condition. 

Building 1 : Value $1,200.00; one room, size 32x46x12; well-lighted; 
no cloak rooms ; ceiled ; unpainted ; well kept. 

Equipment: Good home-made desks; first-class blackboards; sev- 
eral maps; no charts, globes, pictures, reference dictionary, li- 
brary, or other equipment. 

Organization : One teacher ; seven grades ; 49 pupils ; five months 
school year, divided into two terms; four members Bovs' Corn 
Club. 



CONCORD SCHOOL. 

MISS WINNIE DAVIS, 

Teacher. 

Franklin, Ga. 



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Location: Two and one-half miles Southeast to Camp Grounds 
school; three miles West to Texas school. 

Grounds: One acre, titles in trustees; grove, being cleaned up; 
ample playgrounds ; no toilets. 

Building: Value $400.00; one room; improperly lighted; no cloak 
rooms ; unpainted ;• badly kept. 

Equipment : Home-made desks and long benches ; very poor black- 
boards ; no maps ; no charts ; no globe ; no dictionary ; no pic- 
tures ; no library. 

Organization : One teacher ; seven grades ; 48 pupils ; five months 
school year, divided into two terms ; six members Boys ' Corn 
Club ; 2 members Canning club. 




PLEASANT HILL 
SCHOOL. 

E. G. FAVER, 

Teacher. 

Franklin, Ga., R. 1. 



Location: Four miles South to Enon's Grove school; one and three- 
quarter miles to Coweta county line. 

Grounds: Size and titles of school lot uncertain; situated in grove 
adjacent to church ; unimproved and neglected ; no toilets. 

Building": Value $400.00; one room; no cloak rooms; unpainted; 
improperly lighted ; clean. 

Equipment: Rough home-made desks; very poor blackboards; no 
maps, charts, globes, dictionary, library, or other equipment. 

Organization: One teacher; six grades; thirty-eight pupils; five 
months school year, divided into two terms. 



LIBERTY SCHOOL. 

MISS PEARL KERSEY, 

Teacher. 

Franklin, Ga., R. 5. 




Location: Three and one-half miles Northwest to Union school. 

Grounds: One and one-half acres; titles in trustees; entirely un- 
improved ; very small playgrounds ; only one toilet. 

Building 1 : Value $900.00; one room; no cloak rooms; well lighted; 
painted and in good order. 

Equipment: Single patent desks; first-class blackboards; organ; 
framed pictures ; no maps, charts, globe, library, or other equip- 
ment. 

Organization: One teacher; seven grades; forty-five pupils; six 
months school year, divided into two terms; an organized liter- 
ary society ; 4 members Corn Club ; 7 members Canning Club ; 
local tax of three mills. Amount $141.44. 




ST. CLOUD SCHOOL. 

MR. G. C. COOK, 

Teacher. 

Hogansville, Ga., R. 3. 



Location: Four miles Southwest to Pearidge school; very near the 

CoAveta county line. 
Grounds : Size and titles doubtful ; situated in a very tine oak 

grove ; grounds neglected ; no toilets. 
Building: Value $600.00; one room and veranda; no cloak rooms; 

improperly lighted; painted and good condition; not well kept. 
Equipment: Home-made desks; medium blackboards; a large flag; 

no maps, charts, globe, dictionary, library, or other equipment. 
Organization : One teacher ; seven grades ; thirty-eight pupils ; five 

months school year divided into two terms. 



CORINTH SCHOOL. 

MR. J. S. JACKSON, 
Principal. 

MISS IDA MAY 

CHRISTOPHER, 

Assistant. 

Hogansville, Ga., R. F. D. 




Location: Four miles West to Cooksville school; very near county 
line of Coweta and Troup. 

Grounds: Two acres, titles in trustees; ample playgrounds utilized 
and supervised ; lot well cleaned up ; two toilets in good con- 
dition. 

Building: Value $1,000.00; two class rooms; no cloak rooms; fairly 
well lighted; painted; well kept. 

Equipment: Single and double patent desks and teachers' desks; 
sufficient quantity blackboards of poor quality ; two maps, 
charts; globe; framed pictures; library of 60 volumes. 

Organization: Two teachers; eight grades; fifty-eight pupils ; six 
months school year, divided into two terms ; five members Corn 
Club. 



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HARMONY SCHOOL. 

MRS. ROSS COSBY, 

Teacher. 

Franklin, Ga. 



Location: Three miles North of Jacksonville. 

Grounds : Two acres ; titles doubtful ; lot entirely unimproved ; 

small playgrounds ; no toilets. 
Building 1 : Value $450.00; one room; no cloak rooms; unceiled; un- 

painted ; undergoing slight repairs. 
Equipment : Home-made desks ; poor blackboards ; one United 

States History map ; no charts, globe, library, dictionary, or 

other equipment. 
Organization: One teacher; six grades; forty-two pupils; five 

months school year, divided into two terms. 



LIBERTY HILL 
SCHOOL 

MISS INEZ RUTLAND, 

Teacher. 

LaGrange, Ga., R. 5. 




Location: Four miles West to Glenn School; five miles North to 
Liberty school ; near Troup county line. 

Grounds: Size and titles of lot doubtful; unimproved and neg- 
lected ; ample playgrounds ; one toilet. 

Building: Value $500.00 (?); an old two-story building, with un- 
used lodge room above ; one class room ; no cloak rooms ; insuffi- 
ciently lighted : unpainted. 

Equipment: Rough home-made desks; no blackboards; no maps, 
charts, globe, library, or other equipment. Exhibits of flags and 
hand work by the pupils. 

Organization: One teacher; eight grades; twenty-five pupils; five 
months school year, divided into two terms. 



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GLENN SCHOOL. 

MISS BIRDIE MAY 

FLEMISTER, 
Principal. 

MISS ROSA FINCHER, 
Assistant. 
Glenn, Ga. 



Location: Four miles East to Liberty Hill school; miles to 

Grounds: One acre lot, titles in trustees; unimproved; small play- 
grounds; only one toilet. 

Building: Value $1,500.00; three class rooms; no cloak rooms; im- 
properly lighted ; painted inside only ; not well kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teachers' desks; fairly good 
blackboards; no maps, charts, globe, pictures, dictionary, li- 
brary or other equipment. 

Organization : Two teachers ; eight grades ; fifty pupils ; eight 
months school year, divided into two terms ; organized literary 
society; 5 members Corn Club; 11 members Canning Club. 
Local tax rate five mills. Amount $280.00. 




STATE LINE SCHOOL. 

MR. C. S. JACKSON, 

Teacher. 

Glenn, Ga., R. 2. 

MRS. C. S. JACKSON, 

Assistant. 

Glenn, Ga., R. 2. 



Location: Three miles South to Glenn school; two and one-half 
miles North to Oak Grove school. 

Grounds: One acre, titles in trustees; slightly improved; good 
playgrounds; well kept yards; no toilets. 

Building: Value $700.00; one class room; front veranda; no cloak 
rooms ; sufficiently, but improperly, lighted ; ceiled ; unpainted ; 
well kept and in good repair. 

Equipment: Single patent desks; poor blackboards; no maps, 
charts, globe, pictures, reference dictionary, library or other 
equipment. 

Organization: Two teachers, seven grades; fifty-seven pupils; six 
months school year, divided into two terms: (One month sup- 
ported bv tuition); debating club organized; eleven members 
Corn Club. 

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JACKSONVILLE 
SCHOOL. 

MRS. A. J. LANE, 

Teacher. 

Franklin, Ga. 



Location : Three miles South to Harmony school ; four miles North 

to Franklin. 
Grounds : Area and titles doubtful ; unimproved ; yards swept 

clean ; very small playgrounds ; no toilets. 
Building: Value $300.00; one room; no cloak rooms; insufficiently 

lighted ; unpainted ; clean. 
Equipment: Home-made desks; no blackboards; no maps, charts, 

pictures, dictionary, library, or other equipment. 
Organization: One teacher; seven grades; thirty-eight pupils; five 

months school vear, divided into two terms. 



MASON SCHOOL. 

MR. B. F. WEATHERS, 

Teacher. 

Franklin, Ga. 




Location: Immediately on the line between Georgia and Alabama; 

3 miles North to Ridgeway school. 
Grounds : Area and titles doubtful ; situated in grove in the rear of 

a church ; small playgrounds ; one toilet. 
Building: Value $400.00; one room; no cloak rooms; improperly 

lighted; ceiled; unpainted, fairly well kept. 
Equipment: Home-made desks; poor blackboards; no maps, charts, 

globe, pictures, library or other equipment. 
Organization: One teacher; seven grades ; thirty-two pupils (mostly 

from Alabama) ; five months school year, divided into two 

terms. 



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OAK GROVE SCHOOL. 

MISS LUCILE 

WOODWARD, 

Principal. 

MISS CELESTIA 

WOODWARD, 

Assistant. 

Franklin, Ga., R. 4. 

A STANDARD SCHOOL. 



Location: Three miles East to Texas school; three miles Southeast 
to State Line school. 

Grounds: Area one acre, titles in trustees; grounds well improved, 
and well kept; playgrounds small, but improved; play super- 
vised ; school gardens ; two toilets in sanitary condition. 

Building: Value $1,500.00; two class rooms; cloak rooms; well 
lighted ; painted ; floors oiled ; well kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks; first-class blackboards; several 
good maps ; two globes ; framed pictures ; reference dictionaries '> 
library of 300 volumes; organ; flag above building; display of 
native woods, etc. 

Organization: Two teachers; eight grades; 103 pupils; programs 
posted; seven months school year, divided into two terms; lit- 
erary clubs, sewing and cooking clubs; 6 members Corn Club; 
4 members Canning Club. 



RIDGEWAY SCHOOL. 

j MR. A. T. ARRINGTON, 

Teacher. 

Frelona, Ga. 




Location: One and one-half miles Northwest to High Point; two 

miles North to Walnut Hill; two miles North to Frelona. 
Grounds: Four acres; titles probably in Methodist conference; 

large grove, unimproved ; small playgrounds ; no toilets. 
Building: Value $600.00; two rooms; insufficiently and improperly 

lighted ; no cloak rooms ; in bad repair ; badly kept ; unpainted. 
Equipment: Home-made desks; very poor blackboards; no maps; 

no charts; no globe; no pictures; no dictionary; no library. 
Organization: One teacher; seven grades; 56 pupils; five months 

school year, divided into two terms ; 6 members Boys Corn Club. 



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TEXAS SCHOOL. 

MISS MARTHA PITTMAN, 

Principal. 

MRS. W. B. ECTOR, 

Assistant. 

Texas, Ga. 



Location: Two and one-half miles East to Camp Grounds school; 
three miles West t oOak Grove school ; three and one-half miles 
Southeast to Union school. 

Grounds: Three acres, titles in trustees; unimproved, but well 
kept grounds ; ample playgrounds ; play supervised ; no gar- 
dens; only one toilet; average condition. 

Building 1 : Value $5,000.00; two story, frame; three class rooms, 
and auditorium ; well planned ; ivell lighted ; ceiled ; unpainted ; 
well kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teachers' desks; first-class 
blackboards ;one State map; one chart; small globe; framed 
pictures; library of about 150 volumes in good case; large flag; 
reference dictionaries. 

Organization: Two teachers; seven grades; eighty-five pupils; pro- 
grams posted ; debating clubs ; five months school year, and 
sometimes a private term ; 4 members Corn Club. 




RED OAK SCHOOL. 

MISS CONNIE COMBS, 

Teacher. 

Frelona, Ga. 

MR. TALMAGE COMBS, 

Assistant. 
Frelona, Ga. 



Location: Two miles South to High Point; two miles East to Wal- 
nut Hill ; four miles North to Ephesus. 

Grounds: Area and titles doubtful; large grove; unimproved and 
neglected ; fairly good playgrounds ; no toilets. 

Building: Value $800.00; one large room, improperly lighted; no 
cloak rooms ; well kept ; ceiled ; unpainted. 

Equipment: Home-made desks; very poor blackboards; no maps; 
no charts ; no globe ; no pictures ; no dictionary ; no library. 

Organization: Two teachers, seven grades; 45 pupils; five months 
school vear, divided into two terms; 2 members Boys' Corn 
Club. 15 




LOFTIN SCHOOL. 

MR. W. C. HILL, 

Teacher. 

Frelona, Ga. 



Location: Two miles South to Rockalo; two miles West to 
Ephesus ; two and one-half miles East to Friendship. 

Grounds: Area and titles doubtful; unimproved and neglected; 
ample playgrounds ; no toilets. 

Building : Value $400.00 ; one room ; fairly well lighted ; no cloak 
rooms ; fairly well kept ; ceiled ; unpainted. 

Equipment: Home-made desks; very poor blackboards; 1 United 
States History map; no charts; no globe; no pictures; no dic- 
tionary; no library. 

Organization: One teacher; seven grades; 33 pupils; five months 
school year, divided into two terms; 6 members Boys' Corn 
Club. 



EPHESUS SCHOOL. 

MR. J. L. COSPER, 

Teacher. 
Roopville, Ga., R. 2. 

MR. H. U. DENNEY, 

Assistant. 
Roopville, Ga., R. 2. 



Location: Two miles East to Loftin; three miles Southeast to Rock- 
alo ; four miles South to Red Oak. 

Grounds: Area and titles doubtful; adjacent to a church; yards in 
good condition; ample playgrounds; two toilets in fair condi- 
tion. 

Building: Value $800.00: one large room; insufficiently and im- 
properly lighted; no cloak rooms; building in bad repair; well 
kept ; ceiled ; unpainted. 

Equipment: Home-made desks; poor blackboards; no maps; no 
charts; no globe; no pictures; no reference dictionary; no 
library. 

Organization: Two teachers; seven grades; 89 pupils; five months 
school year, divided into two terms; 7 members Boys' Corn 
Club. 




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HIGH POINT SCHOOL. 

MR. J. S. GORE, 

Teacher. 

Frelona, Ga. 



Location : One and one-half miles Southeast to Ridgeway ; two 
miles East to Frelona ; two miles North to Red Oak. 

Grounds: Two acres; titles in trustees; bare and unimproved; am- 
ple playgrounds ; one toilet only. 

Building: Value $700.00; one room, size 38x50x12; improperly 
lighted; no cloak rooms; building new and in good condition; 
badly planned; unpainted. 

Equipment: Long benches; no blackboards; no maps; no. charts; 
no globe; no pictures; no dictionary; no library. 

Organization : One teacher ; seven grades ; 5 pupils ; five months 
school vear, divided into two terms; 4 members Boys' Corn 
Club. 




FAIRVIEW SCHOOL. 

MR. J. W. BEDSOE, 

Teacher. 
Franklin, Ga., R. 6. 



Location: Two and one-halt* miles Southwest to Walnut Hill; three 
miles North to Rockalo ; three miles Southeast to Simpson; 
three miles Northeast to Antioch ; two and one-half miles South 
to Frelona. 

Grounds: Two acres; titles in trustees; grounds being improved 
for a farm demonstration ; ample playgrounds ; no toilets. 

Building: Value $450.00; one room, size 26x40x9: new building; no 
eloak rooms ; lighting medium ; not well kept ; ceiled ; unpainted. 

Equipment: Rough home-made desks; fairly good blackboards; no 
maps; no charts; no globe; no pictures; no dictionary; no li- 
brary. 

Organization: One teacher: seven grades; 54 pupils; five months 
school vear, divided into two terms; members Boys' Corn 
Club. * 17 




WALNUT HILL 
SCHOOL. 

MISS CASSIE HAMRICK, 

Teacher. 

Frelona, Ga. 



Location: One mile South to Frelona; two miles West to Red 

Oak ; two miles Northeast to Fairview. 
Grounds : Half acre, titles in trustees ; grounds bare, but well 

sodded in grasses ; ample playgrounds ; only one toilet, in good 

condition. 
Building : Value $900.00 ; one room, size 30x48x9 ; lodge rooms over- 
head ; fairly well lighted ; no cloak rooms ; in good condition 

and well kept ; ceiled ; unpainted. 
Equipment: Single patent desks; poor blackboards; no maps; no 

charts ; no globe ; no framed pictures ; no reference dictionary ; 

no library. 
Organization : One teacher ; seven grades ; 28 pupils ; five months 

school year, divided into two terms; 4 members Bovs' Corn 

Club. 




MT. SALEM SCHOOL. 

MISS LOIS WHATLEY, 

Teacher. 

Franklin, Ga. 



Location: Two and one-half miles Northwest to Simpson; two and 

one-half miles North to Wayside ; four miles Southeast to 

Franklin. 
Grounds: Area ( ?) ; titles ( ?) ; located on hillside; yards well 

cleaned off ; small playgrounds ; no toilets. 
Building : Value $450.00 ; one room ; well lighted ; no cloak rooms ; 

ceiled ; unpainted ; well kept. 
Equipment: Home-made desks; very poor blackboards; no maps; 

no charts ; no globe ; no pictures : no dictionary ; no library. 
Organization: One teacher; six grades; 34 pupils; five months 

school year, divided into two terms; 2 members Boys' Corn 

Club; 1 member Girls' Canning Club. 

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GLENLOCH SCHOOL. 

MR. A. L. KOUGLAR, 
Principal. 
Roopville, Ga., R. 1. 
MISS ANNIE STEPHEN- 
SON, 
Roopville, Ga., R. 1. 
MISS WILLIE B. 
WORTHAM, 
Assistants. 
Roopville, Ga., R. 1. 

Location: Two miles Southwest to Bethel; three miles East 1o Riv- 
erside ; 3 miles South to Central Hatchee. 

Grounds: Three acres, titles in trustees; large grove in rear badly 
neglected ; ample playgrounds ; two toilets. 

Building: Value *2,000.00 ; two-story building; two class rooms, 
and auditorium used as class room; a good building badly 
planned ; improperly lighted ; no cloak rooms ; painted outside. 

Equipment: Home-made desks, one room seated with benches: 
very poor blackboards; no maps; one chart; one small globe; 
no pictures; no reference dictionary; no library. 

Organization: Three teachers; seven grades; 145 pupils; eight 
months school year, divided into two terms; an organized debat- 
ing society; sixteen members Boys' Corn Club; twelve members 
Girls' Canning Club. 




BETHEL SCHOOL. 

MR. J. P. JACKSON, 

Teacher. 

Roopville, Ga. 



Location: Two miles South to Central Hatchee; two miles North- 
east to Glenloch. 

Grounds: Area doubtful, titles probably in a church; large grove, 
neglected ; ample playgrounds ; no toilets. 

Building: Value ( ?) ; one very large room; no cloak rooms; im- 
properly lighted; badly kept; unpainted : Primitive Baptist 
church. 

Equipment: Long benches; very poor blackboards; 1 United 
States History map; no charts; no globe; no pictures; no dic- 
tionary; no library. 

Organization: One teacher; six grades; 32 pupils; five months 
school year, divided into two terms; 3 members Boys' Corn 
Club. 1!) 




SIMPSON SCHOOL. 

MISS ALBIA KELLY, 

Teacher. 

Franklin, Ga. 



Location : 

Grounds : Two acres, titles probably in local trustees ; elevated lo- 
cation ; grounds well cleaned up and being improved; ample 
playgrounds ; school gardens ; only one toilet, in good condition. 

Building: Value $800.00; two large rooms; insufficiently lighted; 
no cloak rooms; in good repair and well kept; ceiled; un- 
painted. 

Equipment: Good home-made desks; plenty of fairly good black- 
boards; two maps; no charts; no globe; no framed pictures; no 
reference dictionary; no library; a large flag; covered water 
coolers ; individual cups. 

Organization: One teacher (an assistant for part time paid by the 
principal); seven grades; 65 pupils; five months school year 
(two months tuition term); 7 members Boys' Corn Club; 5 
members Girls' Canning Club. 




RIVERSIDE SCHOOL. 

MR. J. H. HUFF, 

Teacher. 

Roopville, Ga. 



Location: Two miles West to Central Hatchee ; three miles North- 
west to Glenloch. 

Grounds: Area and titles doubtful; lot and yards neglected; very 
small playgrounds ; one toilet in good condition. 

Building: Value $400.00; one room; no cloak rooms; insufficiently 
and improperly lighted ; unpainted ; badly kept. 

Equipment: Rough home-made desks; very poor blackboards; no 
maps; no charts; no globe; no pictures; no dictionary; no li- 
brary. 

Organization: One teacher; six grades; 44 pupils; five months 
school vear ; two members Bovs' Corn Club. 

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PINE GROVE SCHOOL. 

MR. J. C. LEE, 

Teacher. 

Franklin, Ga. 



Location : Three miles Northwest to Central Hatchee ; three miles 

North to Riverside. 
Grounds : Area and titles doubtful ; fine oak grove unimproved ; 

ample playgrounds ; no toilets. 
Building 1 : Value .$300.00; one large room (built for a church) ; in-» 

sufficiently lighted; no cloak rooms; unglassed windows; un- 

ceiled ; unpainted ; not well kept. 
Equipment : Home-made desks ; very little blackboard of any kind ; 

no maps; no charts; no globe; no pictures; no dictionary; no 

library. 
Organization: One teacher; seven grades; 26 pupils ; five months 

school year, divided into two terms ; no clubs. 



CENTRAL HATCHEE 
SCHOOL. 

MR. JOSEPH BAGWELL, 

Principal. 

Roopville, Ga., R. 1. 

MISS WILMER HAMRICK, 

Assistant. 

Roopville, Ga., R. 3. 




Location: Two miles East to Riverside; two and one-quarter miles 
North to Bethel; two and one-half miles West to Wayside. 

Grounds: Large area, titles ( ?) ; very fine oak grove; unimproved; 
ample playgrounds ; two toilets. 

Building: Value $1,000.00; two class rooms insufficiently lighted; 
no cloak rooms; in good repair and well kept; additions being 
planned ; painted. 

Equipment: Single patent desks; very poor blackboards^ no maps; 
no charts ; no globes ; no framed pictures ; no reference diction- 
ary ; no library. 

Organization: Two teachers; seven grades; 113 pupils; five months 
school year (tuition for two months^ ; ten members Boys' Corn 
Club. 

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YELLOW DIRT 
SCHOOL. 

MISS DAISY JACKSON, 

Teacher. 

Franklin, Ga., R. 2. 



Location: Three miles "West to Glenloeh; three miles South to Riv- 
erside. 

Grounds: Area doubtful; titles in an adjoining Baptist church; lot 
unimproved ; playgrounds ample ; no toilets. 

Building : Value $450.00 ; one room ; improperly lighted ; no cloak 
rooms; ceiled ; in good repair and well kept. 

Equipment: Home-made desks; very poor blackboards; no maps; 
no charts ; no globe ; no dictionary ; no pictures ; no library. 

Organization: One teacher; eight grades; forty-nine pupils; five 
months school vear, divided into two terms ; 3 members Corn 
Club. 




ROCKALO SCHOOL. 

MR. C. A. LOFTIN, 

Teacher. 

Frelona, Ga. 



Location: Three miles East to Antioch ; three miles South to Fair- 
view ; three and one-half miles West to Red Oak. 

Grounds: Two acres, titles ( 1) ■ elevated location in fine grove; un- 
improved ; very small playgrounds ; two toilets in good condi- 
tion. 

Building: Value $400.00; one room, with front veranda; insuffi- 
ciently and improperly lighted ; no cloak rooms ; ceiled ; un- 
painted ; very badly kept. 

Equipment: Home-made desks; very poor blackboards; 1 United 
States History map; no charts; no globe; no dictionary; no pic- 
tures ; no library. 

Organization: One teacher; seven grades; fifty-seven pupils; five 
months school vear, divided into two terms; 3 members Corn 
Club. 



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FRIENDSHIP SCHOOL. 

MR. N. E. DENNEY, 

Teacher. 

Roopville, Ga. 



Location: Two and one-half miles South to Antioch; two and one- 
half miles West to Lofthi; three miles East to Welcome. 

Grounds: One acre, titles in trustees; bare and unimproved; small 
playgrounds ; one toilet in good condition. 

Building: Value $700.00; two-story, with Lodge rooms overhead; 
one class room ; no cloak rooms ; ceiled ; unpainted ; fairly well 
kept. 

Equipment: Home-made desks; poor blackboards; 1 United States 
History map; no charts; no globe; no pictures; no dictionary; 
no library. 

Organization: One teacher; seven grades; fifty pupils; five months 
school year, divided into two terms; five members Boys' Corn 
Club. 

UNION SCHOOL. 

MISS MARY COOK, 

Teacher. 

Franklin, Ga. 



Location: Three miles Southeast to Liberty school; 3 miles West 
To Texas; 2 miles North to Camp Grounds. 

Grounds : Area one acre ; titles in trustees ; lot unimproved ; play- 
grounds small; one toilet in good condition. 

Building: Value $600.00; one class room; improperly lighted; no 
cloak room ; ceiled ; painted ; fairly well kept. 

Equipment: Home-made desks; poor blackboards; 1 United States 
map; 1 Georgia map; no charts; no globes; no pictures; no dic- 
tionary ; no library. 

Organization: One teacher; seven grades; fifty-seven pupils; five 
months school year, divided into two terms; 7 members Boys' 
Corn Club; 4 members Girls' Canning Club. 




WELCOME SCHOOL. 

MR. HOMER LOFTIN, 

Teacher. 
Roopville, Ga., R. F. D. 



Location: Three miles West to Friendship school; three and one- 
half miles East to Central Hatchee ; three miles Southwest to 
Antioch. 

Grounds: Two acres; titles in trustees; hare and unimproved; 
ample playgrounds ; two toilets in good condition. 

Building: Value $750.00; one room, size 32x40x32; fairly well 
lighted; no cloak rooms; new building in good condition, but 
badly 1 planned ; badly kept; unpainted. 

Equipment: Home-made desks; poor blackboards; no maps; no 
charts ; no globe ; no dictionary ; no pictures ; no library. 

Organization: One teacher; seven grades; 72 pupils; five months 
school year; no clubs. 



ANTIOCH SCHOOL. 

MR. L. L. BLEDSOE, 

Teacher. 
Roopville, Ga., R. 3. 

A. L. WALLS, 

Assistant. 

Roopville, Ga., R. 1. 



Location: Two miles Northwest to Friendship; two and one-half 
miles Southeast to Wayside ; three miles Northeast to Welcome. 

Grounds: Two acres, titles in trustees; grounds in good condition, 
but unimproved ; ample play grounds ; two toilets in good con- 
dition. 

Building: Value $600.00; one room; size 30x46x10; insufficiently 
lighted ; no cloak rooms ; badly kept ; unpainted. 

Equipment: Rough home-made desks; poor blackboards; no maps; 
no charts; no globes; no pictures; no reference dictionary; no 
library. 

Organization: Two teachers; seven grades; 70 pupfrS; five months 
school year, divided into two terms; (?) members Boys' Corn 
Club; (°0 members Girls' Canning Club. 




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CAMP GROUNDS 
SCHOOL. 

MRS. W. P. BROWN, 

Teacher. 

Franklin, Ga. 



Location: One and one-half miles South to Union School; two miles 

Northwest to Concord school; three miles West to Texas school. 
Grounds: Area and titles doubtful; adjacent to a Camp Ground; 

hare and unimproved; small playgrounds; only one toilet, in 

medium condition. 
Building 1 : Value $4.">0.00; one room; insufficiently lighted; no cloak 

rooms; ceiled; unpainted. 
Equipment: Home-made desks; poor blackboards; no maps; no 

charts; no globe ; no dictionary; no pictures; no library. 
Organization: One teacher; seven grades; thirty-five pupils; five 

months school year, divided into two terms; 4 members Corn 

Club; 4 members ('aiming Club. 




FRELONA SCHOOL. 

MR. B. F. GORE, 

Teacher. 

Frelona, Ga. 



Location: One mile North to Walnut Hill school; one and three- 
fourths miles South to Ridgeway ; one and three-fourth miles 
West to High Point. 

Grounds: Two acres; titles in private party; hare and unimproved; 
ample playgrounds; only one toilet, in bad condition. 

Building: Value $600.00; one room, 36x48x14: no cloak rooms: 
well lighted; unceiled; unpainted; badly kept. 

Equipment: Home-made desks; poor blackboards; no maps; no 
charts; no globe; no pictures; no dictionary; no library. 

Organization: One teacher; five grades; 51 pupils; five months 
school year, divided into two terms; 5 members Corn Club. 



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COOKSVILLE SCHOOL. 

MR. OLIN OLIVER, 

Teacher. 

Cooksville, Ga. 



Grounds: Size of lot one acre; titles in trustees; situated in a nat- 
ural oak grove of many acres available for play grounds, etc. ; 
only one toilet ; condition bad. 

Building: Value $1,000.00; one class room; front veranda; no cloak 
rooms; fairly well lighted; painted. 

Equipment: Double patent desks; poor blackboards; two small 
maps ; organ ; no charts, globe, library, reference dictionary, or 
other equipment. 

Organization: One teacher; nine grades; 18 pupils; seven months 
school year, divided into two terms. Two months maintained 
by local tax, amount $305.50. Local tax rate 3^ mills ; 4 mem- 
bers Corn Club; 6 members Canning Club. 



ENON GROVE SCHOOL. 

MISS FLOSSIE MILLER, 

Principal. 

Franklin, Ga. 

MISS BLANCHE MILLER, 

Assistant. 

Franklin, Ga. 



Location: Four miles North to Pleasant Hill school ; four miles East 
to St. Cloud school. 

Grounds: Two acre lot, titles in trustees; yards well cleaned up, 
but lot otherwise unimproved ; well on lot in good condition ; 
no toilets; ample playgrounds across the public road from 
school lot should become the property of the school. 

Building: Value $800.00; one room, 30x40x10; no cloak rooms; 
well lighted ; ceiled ; but unpainted ; clean and well kept ; cov- 
ered water coolers and individual cups. 

Equipment: Good home-made desks and teachers' desks, first-class 
blackboards ; a large globe ■ a reference dictionary ; no maps, 
charts, pictures, or library. 

Organization: Two teachers eight grades; 66 pupils; six months 
school year, divided into two terms ; daily program posted j two 
literary societies organized ; 14 members Corn Club ; 13 mem- 
bers Canning Club; local tax rate 5 mills. Amount $174.56. 

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PEA RIDGE SCHOOL. 

MISS MINNIE MINICK, 

Teacher, 

Franklin, Ga. 

Location: Five miles distant from any other school. 
Grounds: Area, one acre; titles ( ?) ; fine grove unimproved; no 
toilet. 

Building : Value, $450.00 ; one class room ; no cloak rooms ; im- 
properly lighted; unceiled ; unpainted; well kept. 

Equipment : Good home-made desks ; very poor blackboards ; one 
small State map ; no charts, dictionary, library, or other equip- 
ment. 

Organization: One teacher; six grades; 39 pupils; five months 
school year, divided into two terms ; no clubs. 



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THE STANDARD COUNTY SCHOOL. 

Educational results and good teaching generally are not often secured 
in a shiftless-looking building in which neither patrons, pupils, nor teachers 
take any pride. Indefiniteness has been removed at this point through 
the standard school. In the larger towns and cities pressure of public senti- 
ment and the comment of visitors will sooner or later force good educational 
conditions — and they are improving constantly. Rural communities need 
to be shown and inspired by educational leaders and we have sent diplomas 
to more than two hundred county schools where the superintendents have 
certified to the fact that they have measured up to the standard in every 
particular. There are a number of localities in the State where the feeling 
is that no community in the county is able to bring its school up to these 
very reasonable requirements. I cannot help but think that this is a mis- 
taken view and that some standard schools could be secured in every 
county in Georgia and that these would serve to inspire the others to pro- 
gress. Superintendents have written that the use of this efficiency test 
has developed more progress in the past 12 months than for years previous 
in the way of improvement. The plan is of no value, however, where it is 
not used or applied and I earnestly hope we will have the effort at least 
of every superintendent in the State to have his county represented on this 
roll of honor. The list will be published in the next Annual Report. The 
standard is not unreasonably high and no more than the Georgia parent has 
the right to expect. Copies should be posted in every county school room 
in the State and can be secured for this purpose at any time on application 
to the State Department of Education. To be entitled to a diploma a school 
should measure up to the standard in the following particulars: 



The Teacher. 

1. Good Teaching. 

2. Good Order and Management. 

3. First Grade Certificate. 

4. Full, Neat, and Accurate School 

Register. 

5. Daily Program Posted in Room. 

6. Teacher's Manual on Desk. 

II. 
Grounds. 

1. Good Condition. 

2. Playgrounds. 

3. School Garden. 

4. Two Separate Sanitary Closets. 

III. 
Building. 

1. Painted Outside. 

2. Plastered, or Ceiled and Painted. 

3. No Leaks. 

4. Windows without Broken Panes. 

5. Cloak Rooms. 



6. Good Doors with Locks and Keys. 

7. Clean and Well-kept. 

IV. 
Equipment. 

1. Patent Modern Desks. 

2. At least 20 Lineal feet of Black- 

board per Room. 

3. Building Comfortably Heated and 

Ventilated. 

4. Framed Pictures on the Wall. 

5. Dictionary, Maps and Library. 

6. Sanitary Water Supply. 

V. 

Associated Activities. 

1. Manual Arts, Corn, Canning, Pig, 

Poultry, or Cooking Club. 

VI. 

Salary of Teacher. 

At least $40 per month. 

VII. 

Term. 

At least seven months. 



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